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S. HRG. 111–428 THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE INTERNET OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MAY 6, 2009 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 52–162 PDF WASHINGTON : 2010 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 07:48 May 27, 2010 Jkt 052162 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\WPSHR\GPO\DOCS\52162.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia, Chairman DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas, Ranking JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota JOHN ENSIGN, Nevada BARBARA BOXER, California JIM DEMINT, South Carolina BILL NELSON, Florida JOHN THUNE, South Dakota MARIA CANTWELL, Washington ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey JOHNNY ISAKSON, Georgia MARK PRYOR, Arkansas DAVID VITTER, Louisiana CLAIRE MCCASKILL, Missouri SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota MEL MARTINEZ, Florida TOM UDALL, New Mexico MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska MARK WARNER, Virginia MARK BEGICH, Alaska ELLEN L. DONESKI, Chief of Staff JAMES REID, Deputy Chief of Staff BRUCE H. ANDREWS, General Counsel CHRISTINE D. KURTH, Republican Staff Director and General Counsel PAUL NAGLE, Republican Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE INTERNET JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts, Chairman JOHN ENSIGN, Nevada, Ranking DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota JIM DEMINT, South Carolina BILL NELSON, Florida JOHN THUNE, South Dakota MARIA CANTWELL, Washington ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey JOHNNY ISAKSON, Georgia MARK PRYOR, Arkansas DAVID VITTER, Louisiana CLAIRE MCCASKILL, Missouri SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota MEL MARTINEZ, Florida TOM UDALL, New Mexico MIKE JOHANNS, Nebraska MARK WARNER, Virginia MARK BEGICH, Alaska (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 07:48 May 27, 2010 Jkt 052162 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\WPSHR\GPO\DOCS\52162.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on May 6, 2009 ................................................................................. 1 Statement of Senator Kerry .................................................................................... 1 Statement of Senator Inouye .................................................................................. 5 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Statement of Senator Udall .................................................................................... 6 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 6 Statement of Senator Thune ................................................................................... 6 Statement of Senator Cantwell .............................................................................. 7 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 7 Prepared statement of Frank A. Blethen, Publisher, The Seattle Times submitted by Hon. Maria Cantwell ............................................................. 8 Statement of Senator Hutchison ............................................................................ 63 Statement of Senator McCaskill ............................................................................. 65 Statement of Senator Pryor .................................................................................... 72 Statement of Senator Klobuchar ............................................................................ 74 Statement of Senator Nelson .................................................................................. 86 WITNESSES Hon. Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senator from Maryland ...................................... 13 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 15 Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google .................................................................................................................... 17 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 19 Steve Coll, President and CEO, New America Foundation and Former Man- aging Editor, The Washington Post .................................................................... 21 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 23 David Simon, Former Reporter, The Baltimore Sun (1982–95) and Blown Deadline Productions, (1995–2009) .................................................................... 28 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 31 Article, dated January 20, 2008, from The Washington Post, entitled ‘‘Does the News Matter to Anyone Anymore’’ ............................................. 35 Article, dated March 1, 2009, from The Washington Post, entitled ‘‘In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police’’ .............................................. 37 Article, dated March 2008, from Esquire Magazine, entitled ‘‘A News- paper Can’t Love You Back’’ ........................................................................ 40 Alberto Ibargu¨ en, President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ............ 47 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 49 James M. Moroney III, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, The Dallas Morning News ...................................................................................................... 51 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 53 Prepared Statement of Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post ............................................................................................. 56 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 58 APPENDIX Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator from West Virginia, prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 93 Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, prepared statement .............................. 93 George Tedeschi, President, Graphic Communications Conference, Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters, prepared statement ................................. 96 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 07:48 May 27, 2010 Jkt 052162 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\WPSHR\GPO\DOCS\52162.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE IV Page National Newspaper Association (NNA) by John W. Stevenson, Publisher, The Randolph Leader, and NNA President, 2008–09 and Reed Anfinson, Publisher, Swift County Monitor-News, and NNA Government Relations Chair, 2008–09, prepared statement .................................................................. 97 Letter, dated May 5, 2009, from David K. Rehr, President and CEO, National Association of Broadcasters to Hon. John F. Kerry and Hon. John Ensign ... 99 Bernard Lunzer, President, The Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, prepared statement .......................................................................... 100 Jennifer Towery, President, Peoria Newspaper Guild, prepared statement ...... 102 Bob Cohen, Ph.D., President and CEO, Scarborough Research, prepared state- ment ...................................................................................................................... 105 Letter, dated April 30, 2009 from Michael Langley to Hon. John F. Kerry ....... 107 Response to written questions submitted to Marissa Mayer by: Hon. Daniel K. Inouye ...................................................................................... 109 Hon. Maria Cantwell ........................................................................................ 109 Hon. Mark Warner ........................................................................................... 110 Hon. Tom Udall ................................................................................................ 111 Response to written questions submitted to Steve Coll by: Hon. Daniel K. Inouye ...................................................................................... 112 Hon. Maria Cantwell ........................................................................................ 112 Hon. Frank R. Lautenberg ............................................................................... 112 Hon. Tom Udall ................................................................................................ 113 Response to written questions submitted to David Simon by: Hon. Daniel K. Inouye ...................................................................................... 114 Hon. Maria Cantwell .......................................................................................